Seven Chinese nationals on Monday were accused by the Justice Department of targeting American journalists and political figures, including senior members of a 2020 presidential campaign team, in a wide-ranging hacking operation. 
The defendants, Ni Gaobin, Weng Ming, Cheng Feng, Peng Yaow, Sun Xiaohui, Xiong Wang, and Zhao Guangzong, are accused of aiding a Chinese-backed hacking group in support of China&#8217;s Ministry of State Security’s foreign political and business espionage as well as surveillance of Hong Kong democracy activists and the Uyghur people. The seven allegedly worked for the Hubei State Security Department, which surveilled thousands of American politicians, academics, journalists, and businessmen from 2010 to 2024, according to the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/24-cr-43_indictment_redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a>. 
“These allegations pull back the curtain on China’s vast illegal hacking operation that targeted sensitive data from U.S. elected and government officials, journalists and academics; valuable information from American companies; and political dissidents in America and abroad. Their sinister scheme victimized thousands of people and entities across the world, and lasted for well over a decade,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/seven-hackers-associated-chinese-government-charged-computer-intrusions-targeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> U.S. Attorney Breon Peace. 
During one operation during the Trump administration that lasted from June to September 2018, hackers targeted Republican and Democrat senators from more than 10 states, White House officials, members of the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Treasury, and State, and members of Congress with malicious emails, the indictment said. These emails were reportedly also sent to the spouses of some of the political figures. 
In a different operation, multiple European politicians were targeted, including members of the European Union and more than three dozen parliamentary accounts in the United Kingdom, as part of surveillance into a group of politicians examining threats from the Chinese Communist Party.  
During the 2020 presidential election cycle, a non-specified campaign was targeted by hackers.
“In or about May 2020, the Conspirators began targeting email accounts belonging to several senior campaign staff members for a presidential campaign,” the indictment says. “In or about November 2020, the Conspirators sent emails containing tracking links to targets associated with additional political campaigns, including a retired senior U.S. government national security official.”
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The DOJ said in a press release that campaign staffers for Republicans and Democrats had been targeted ahead of the 2020 election but did not specify the campaigns or races. 
The indictment also said that millions of Americans were caught up in the hacking scheme, with phone call records, cloud storage accounts, and email accounts all being exposed. 
“America’s sovereignty extends to its cyberspace,” Peace added. “Today’s charges demonstrate my Office’s commitment to upholding and protecting that jurisdiction, and to putting an end to malicious nation state cyber activity.”

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Special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jack-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Smith</a> does not want potential jurors to be asked how they voted in the 2020 presidential election — but he does want the court to ask them whether or not they feel that President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department has treated former President Donald Trump &#8220;fairly.&#8221;
According to a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/2895743/jack-smith-pushes-court-not-ask-jurors-whom-voted-for-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Thursday by The Washington Examiner, attorneys for the former president had called for jurors to be asked about their political party affiliations in addition to whether or not they cast a vote in 2020.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon asked for both Smith&#8217;s team and Trump&#8217;s to submit a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.351.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jury questionnaire</a> — which would allow the court to pre-screen potential jurors and rule out those who could not view the case in an objective manner — by Wednesday, and it was immediately clear that the two sides were at loggerheads over a few of the possible questions.
Among the questions that the special counsel and his team objected to were the following:
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<li>Are you registered to vote?</li>
<li>If you answered &#8220;yes&#8221; to the prior question, are you registered with a particular party affiliation?</li>
<li>Did you vote in the 2020 presidential election?</li>
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Smith&#8217;s team also nixed a question regarding whether or not potential jurors held a negative view of politicians, but agreed along with the Trump team to go ahead with questions about whether they held negative opinions of police officers, the FBI, or judges and other court officers.
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The two parties also butted heads when it came to asking jurors about personal media consumption habits. Trump&#8217;s team asked that jurors rank media outlets — from the one they went to most to the one they went to least — while Smith&#8217;s team objected, asking jurors to simply &#8220;check all that apply&#8221; when given a list of media outlets.
Trump&#8217;s team also noted objections to several questions, including the following:
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<li>Have you read about or heard about the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at the Mar-a-Lago Club in August 2022?</li>
<li>Have you seen, read about, or heard about any statements by Mr. Trump about this investigation?</li>
</ul>
Trump&#8217;s team also objected to a question regarding whether jurors believed the former president was &#8220;being treated unfairly by the court system,&#8221; saying that if that question were included — instead of a simple &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221; — respondents should be permitted to answer &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;
Smith also objected to several other questions presented by Trump&#8217;s attorneys — most notably: &#8220;An indictment is not evidence. It is a document that sets forth the charges made against a defendant; it is an accusation. It may not be considered as any evidence whatsoever of a defendant’s guilt. Can you think of any reason that would interfere with your ability to follow and apply this principle of law?&#8221;

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Jack Smith Doesn’t Want Jurors Asked How They Voted In 2020. Here’s What He Does Want To Know.

Jack Smith Doesn't Want Jurors Asked How They Voted In 2020. Here's What He Does Want To Know.

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Every state makes it a crime to intentionally injure someone — like shooting or stabbing them without justification.
That’s why it has long been a crime in most states to intentionally infect someone with a disease — including a sexually transmitted disease (STD). After all, the consequences of an STD can be just as long lasting and deadly as if the perpetrator shot or stabbed the victim.
But apparently the Biden administration disagrees. Led by radical Assistant Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/28/the-justice-departments-lawsuit-against-georgia-is-completely-partisan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristen Clarke</a>, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is suing Tennessee for attempting to enforce a statute that is designed to protect the public from HIV-positive prostitutes.
According to Clarke and her cronies, Tennessee’s attempt to protect is citizens is actually thinly veiled <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-tennessee-enforcing-state-law-discriminates-against-people-hiv" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discrimination</a> that violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In addition to Clarke, the zealots who filed this lawsuit against Tennessee include Disability Rights Section Chief Rebecca Bond, Deputy Chief Kevin Kijewski, Trial Attorney Stephanie Berger, and Trial Attorney Ali Szemanski. A brief look through their resumes — even those of the lower-ranking trial attorneys — shows that they have worked for various organizations that support the far-Left’s pet projects.
For example, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-berger-914b448" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berger</a> previously spent several years working for the Empire State Pride Agenda, which disbanded after then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order protecting transgender rights. And <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-szemanski-7b448042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Szemanski</a> previously worked or interned for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of Boston, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race &amp; Justice, and the MacArthur Justice Center.
These connections to the radical Left shouldn’t come as a surprise. The politicized and Left-leaning hiring practices within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have been a <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2013/s1303.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long-standing problem</a>. Only a full embrace of the far-Left’s worldview can explain the filing of this otherwise inexplicable lawsuit.
Passed in 1991 at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Tennessee’s <a href="https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/program-areas/39-13-516.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggravated prostitution statute</a> provides that a “person commits aggravated prostitution when, knowing that such person is infected with HIV, the person engages in sexual activity as a business or is an inmate in a house of prostitution or loiters in a public place for the purpose of being hired to engage in sexual activity.” In other words, if a person knows he or she has HIV and engages in prostitution (itself a crime), then that person faces harsher penalties.
According to the Biden Justice Department, however, this is discrimination because it unfairly treats individuals differently based solely on their HIV-positive status and “does not require prosecuting entities to make any individualized determinations in order to achieve a conviction.”
But think that through: It’s not discrimination to prosecute an alcoholic for driving while under the influence. And it’s not discrimination to prosecute a drug addict for possessing or selling drugs. Tennessee isn’t prosecuting and punishing people based on their status but instead is prosecuting and punishing them based on their conduct and the risk of harm that conduct poses to the community. It’s why most states prosecute armed robbery more harshly than unarmed robbery — lawmakers view the former as posing a greater risk, and being more harmful, to the community. The same is true here.
Of course, the Justice Department doesn’t have a sound legal argument against this. They simply allege that since “the passage of Tennessee’s aggravated prostitution statute, there has been significant progress in the understanding of and treatment of HIV.” According to them, “beliefs and assumptions that individuals with HIV will spread it, or that having HIV is a death sentence, are now outdated and unfounded.”
That may well be true, but as that same filing readily admits, that largely depends on following proper protocols for medication and treatment. Furthermore, Tennessee isn’t targeting the HIV population at large — only those who know they are infected and are engaging in the crime of prostitution where the transmission risk is likely much higher than in other settings.
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Why shouldn&#8217;t Tennessee be able to punish criminal conduct with aggravating circumstances such as these more severely? After all, no one is seriously contending that engaging in prostitution while being HIV-positive is less dangerous and less harmful than doing so without.
The Justice Department filing identifies “Complainant A” as one of the “victims” of Tennessee’s supposedly discriminatory law. According to the Justice Department, “Complainant A is a Black transgender woman who lives in Memphis, Tennessee.” This individual had HIV, knew it, and engaged in “prostitution near a church or school.” Tennessee charged this individual with aggravated prostitution, which of course comes with the subsequent sex-offender registration requirements and other collateral consequences.
Because Tennessee simply enforced the law, the Justice Department now says the state discriminated against this individual. In fact, they’re asking the court to prohibit any further enforcement of Tennessee’s aggravated prostitution statute, remove individuals from the sex-offender registry who have been convicted of aggravated prostitution, terminate reporting requirements for individuals on the sex-offender registry who have been convicted of aggravated prostitution, expunge their records, and provide compensatory damages (money!) to Complainant A and others the Justice Department has deemed harmed.
With all the problems facing the Biden administration this year, their dedication to extorting everyday Americans to advance a radical social agenda is astounding. Americans deserve, and should expect, more from a department supposedly dedicated to seeking justice. Enough is enough.
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Zack Smith is a legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A longtime <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> informant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/informant-charged-with-allegedly-lying-to-fbi-about-bidens-role-with-ukrainian-gas-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> of fabricating a multi-million dollar bribery scheme involving President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and his son <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> claimed officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in shaping the narrative.
Prosecutors wrote in a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.167064/gov.uscourts.nvd.167064.15.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detention memo</a> that Alexander Smirnov, a 43-year-old dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, &#8220;admitted&#8221; the connection during an interview last week after he was arrested at the international airport in Las Vegas upon returning from overseas.
The document said Smirnov, identified as an FBI source for more than a decade, reported contacts with &#8220;officials affiliated with Russian intelligence&#8221; that were &#8220;extensive and extremely recent,&#8221; including one described as a &#8220;high-ranking member of a specific Russian foreign intelligence service.&#8221;
Another person linked to Russian intelligence, one whom Smirnov described as being in control of groups who are engaged in overseas assassination efforts, allegedly claimed another Russian operative ran an intelligence operation at a &#8220;club&#8221; inside a hotel.
&#8220;The Russian Intelligence Service intercepted several calls placed by prominent U.S. persons the Russian government may use as &#8216;kompromat&#8217; in the 2024 election, depending on who the candidates will be,&#8221; the prosecutors&#8217; memo said, referring to potential blackmail material.
Recent contacts and meetings from late 2023 allegedly involved Russian officials, including one in November during which Smirnov received information on Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine.
Prosecutors also warned that Smirnov is &#8220;actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November.&#8221;
Special counsel David Weiss, who is leading the criminal inquiry into Hunter Biden, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-fbi-confidential-human-source-felony-false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> last week that a federal grand jury in California returned an indictment charging Smirnov with false statement and obstruction crimes. A conviction may result in 25 years in prison.
The charges stem from Smirnov coming forward during the 2020 election cycle with claims that executives with <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1667203652199780353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burisma Holdings</a>, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mtg-says-bribery-allegations-against-biden-linked-to-burisma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukrainian gas company</a> that employed Hunter Biden on its board for several years, paid $5 million in bribes to the Bidens when Joe Biden was vice president.
House Republicans highlighted the bribery allegations over the course of their corruption-focused impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden. Following the indictment, <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1760281451893834010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP lawmakers</a> and Hunter Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82796/gov.uscourts.ded.82796.89.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defense team</a> questioned the work of federal investigators.
Prosecutors said Smirnov should be detained pending trial, noting his Russian intelligence links and warning Smirnov poses a &#8220;serious&#8221; risk of fleeing with access to over $6 million in &#8220;liquid funds&#8221; as well as the ability to obtain a new Israeli passport after his U.S. and Israeli passports were <a href="https://www.8newsnow.com/news/heres-what-we-know-about-alexander-smirnov-who-is-appearing-in-court-today/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seized</a>.
Smirnov&#8217;s defense attorneys said their client &#8220;is presumed innocent and needs to be released from custody so he can effectively fight the power of the government,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/ex-fbi-informant-charged-false-claims-fueled-biden-hunter-joe-burisma-rcna139587" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to NBC News</a>.
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Reports on Tuesday said a judge in Las Vegas <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-fbi-informant-joe-biden-ef48c7543e7a45cd3b8b671d0e2f60e5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> Smirnov to be released on electronic GPS monitoring under orders that he <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68353303" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remains</a> in Nevada&#8217;s Clarke County and cannot apply for a new passport.
Prosecutors <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.915062/gov.uscourts.cacd.915062.11.0_4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a federal judge in California on Wednesday to reconsider the release, saying that Smirnov &#8220;claims to have contacts with multiple foreign intelligence agencies&#8221; who &#8220;could resettle Smirnov outside the United States if he were released.&#8221;

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Just over half of voters surveyed in a new poll say that President Joe Biden received special treatment during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into his handling of classified documents.
A survey conducted by <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/half-americans-think-biden-got-special-treatment-document-probe-reutersipsos-2024-02-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters/Ipsos</a> found that 53% of the Americans polled agree that &#8220;Biden received special treatment because he is the U.S. president.&#8221; That majority included 29% of Democrats who agreed with the statement. The four-day-long poll closed on Monday and was released on Tuesday morning.
Last Thursday, Hur released his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-willfully-retained-disclosed-classified-materials-but-no-criminal-charges-warranted">report</a> on Biden’s handling of classified documents, concluding that there is “evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” but said “no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.” The special counsel also argued that it would be unlikely a jury would convict the 81-year-old Biden of a “serious felony” because of his “mental state,” describing the president &#8220;as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;
Of those polled by Reuters/Ipsos, nearly half — 46% — said they were at least somewhat familiar with Hur’s less-than-flattering description of Biden. The poll also revealed troubling findings for Biden’s re-election campaign as Reuters reported that 78% of those surveyed, including 71% of Democrats, believe the president is too old to remain in government. Only 53% of respondents said that 77-year-old Donald Trump is too old to be elected to office.
Trump, who is in the midst of his own classified documents case, said last week that the special counsel’s decision to clear Biden shows “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/selective-persecution-trump-says-he-should-not-be-charged-after-biden-cleared-by-special-counsel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selective persecution</a>.”
“If Biden is not going to be charged … that’s up to them, but then I should not be charged,” the former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/selective-persecution-trump-says-he-should-not-be-charged-after-biden-cleared-by-special-counsel">said</a>. “This is nothing more than selective persecution of Biden’s political opponent, me.”
Trump was hit with 40 charges over his handling of classified documents after he left office, which include charges of obstructing government officials from retrieving the documents. The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 to confiscate the classified documents, but Trump has maintained his innocence, saying that he is protected by the Presidential Records Act.
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Biden addressed the special counsel’s report in a press conference on Thursday evening when he said that the investigation’s conclusion means the classified documents scandal is behind him. During the press conference, the president also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">snapped</a> at reporters who asked him to address the report’s revelations about his memory. Biden responded, saying he is “the most qualified person in the United States to be president.”
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Yesterday marked the clearest and most convincing sign yet that Joe Biden will not be the Democratic Party&#8217;s nominee for president this year.
That doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t happen, no one can predict the future. But it does mean that no one with any power in Washington wants Joe Biden to run for office again.
The day began with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-has-significantly-limited-memory-didnt-remember-when-he-was-vp-or-when-son-died" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a report</a>, prepared by Joe Biden&#8217;s own DOJ, that outlines Biden&#8217;s mental decline in excruciating detail. The topline conclusion, as you&#8217;ve probably seen by now, is that the commander-in-chief is so far gone — so detached from reality — that he can&#8217;t even be charged with a crime. He&#8217;s not legally responsible for his own conduct at this point.
In interviews with the special counsel, Biden couldn&#8217;t remember whether he was vice president in 2009. He couldn&#8217;t pinpoint the date of his son Beau&#8217;s death, even within a span of several years. Again, this is the conclusion of a special counsel working for Joe Biden&#8217;s own Justice Department. The special counsel determined, effectively, that the president of the United States is too mentally incompetent to be held responsible for his own actions.
This is the first time in American history when a president’s own Department of Justice has declared him, essentially, unfit for office.
And yet somehow, that was not the worst of the bad news for Joe Biden yesterday. On about ten minutes&#8217; notice, the White House press office announced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press conference</a> at 7:45 p.m. Especially by Biden&#8217;s standards, this is extremely unusual. It&#8217;s rare enough for Biden to give a press conference at all, much less an unscheduled one in the evening. On top of that, Biden&#8217;s handlers sent him out to the podium without a list of pre-approved journalists to call on, which almost never happens. Grandpa Joe was left to fend entirely for himself.
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Naturally, the press conference went pretty much exactly as you&#8217;d expect it would, or maybe somehow even worse. In fact, I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that Biden delivered the single most catastrophic press conference I can remember in my lifetime. At no point did he allay any concerns about his competence or fitness for office. In fact, he did the opposite.
He made it abundantly clear that he needs to be removed from office, immediately. And all of this is even more confounding when you consider that, again, given the time of day, the impromptu nature, the topic that Biden was out there to discuss, and the fact that questions weren’t picked ahead of time, it was pretty much guaranteed to be a disaster. And it’s a disaster that the White House walked right into, seemingly on purpose.
Here&#8217;s how it began. Watch:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;There&#39;s even reference that I don&#39;t remember when my son died.&quot; 
&quot;How in the hell dare he raise that?&quot;
&quot;Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn&#39;t any of their damned business.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4vLr71HeFx">pic.twitter.com/4vLr71HeFx</a>
&mdash; Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewJBates46/status/1755761722432901543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t deny that he couldn&#8217;t remember when his son died. Nor does he explain how this topic came up, exactly. Of course, if you&#8217;ve listened to Biden talk at any point in the past few years, you can assume he brought it up, unprompted, to garner sympathy with the special counsel, because that&#8217;s his usual strategy. But Biden doesn&#8217;t address any of this. Instead, he just lashes out angrily at the prosecutor. Then he mentions a rosary but he can&#8217;t remember where it&#8217;s from.
It&#8217;s not exactly a convincing performance — unless the point is to convince us that Biden is a vegetable. But it gets worse. Here&#8217;s the first question Biden took, from Fox News&#8217;s Peter Doocy:
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BIDEN: “I’m well-meaning and I’m an elderly man and I know what the hell I’m doing! I’m President and I put this country back on its feet!”<a href="https://t.co/TCdYlZDDKM">pic.twitter.com/TCdYlZDDKM</a>
&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1755762843612217601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;My memory is so bad I let you speak.&#8221; That&#8217;s the president of the United States, everyone. He&#8217;s just a well-meaning, elderly man who knows what the hell he&#8217;s doing. And if you ask him about the fact he can&#8217;t remember when his son died, or when he was vice president, he&#8217;ll imply that you should be prevented from speaking. 
No one in the room was laughing at this, including journalists from Left-wing outlets. They apparently received the all-clear to ask Biden some hard questions last night, because corporate media doesn&#8217;t want him to run again either. 
So a CNN reporter named MJ Lee pressed him with a simple and straightforward question about his mental capacity. And instead of calmly answering the question, Joe Biden snapped at her. Watch:
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Q: “For months when you were asked about your memory, you responded with the words, ‘Watch me.’ The American people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age and your mental acuity.”
BIDEN: *Screams* “That&#39;s your judgment.” <a href="https://t.co/pdNGXpP41w">pic.twitter.com/pdNGXpP41w</a>
&mdash; ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1755764224624656774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The CNN reporter wants to know if Biden is mentally stable. Biden barks at her. Then the CNN reporter suggests that maybe he isn&#8217;t the best person to be running for office, and he doesn&#8217;t have a convincing answer to that question, either. We are witnessing the end of Biden&#8217;s legitimacy, to the extent that he ever had any to begin with. Even his once-reliable allies in the corporate press have turned on him. And you can see why.
At one point, in this emergency press conference that was supposedly intended to reassure Americans that the president is mentally competent, Biden refers to the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico:
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Whoever arranged this press conference is either criminally incompetent, or they were trying to sabotage Biden&#8217;s candidacy. Those are the only two options. This was entirely predictable. Biden essentially confirmed everything the special counsel said, he even called himself an elderly man in the press conference. Which, of course, isn’t news. We know he’s elderly. But these are not the kinds of things you should be saying in this situation.
As I mentioned earlier, the special counsel investigating Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents found:
<blockquote>In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden &#8230; did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended &#8230; and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began. &#8230; He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he &#8216;had a real difference&#8217; of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.</blockquote>
The memo continues:
<blockquote>We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by then a former president well into his eighties of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.</blockquote>
Before I go any further, it needs to be mentioned that this reasoning is completely absurd. The only relevant information, for the purposes of bringing a criminal prosecution, is Biden&#8217;s mental state when he committed the alleged crimes. And according to the special counsel, as far back as more than a decade ago, Joe Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified documents with classification markings on them. That includes classified documents from his time in the Senate several decades ago. The documents were in his &#8220;garage, offices, and basement den,&#8221; in both Virginia and Delaware. Again, Biden retained these documents many years ago. There&#8217;s no suggestion that he had amnesia back then. So if that&#8217;s a crime, he should be prosecuted for it. If he&#8217;s not mentally competent to stand trial, that&#8217;s a defense his lawyers can raise after charges have been brought. It&#8217;s not the special counsel&#8217;s job to lay off on the charges because he&#8217;s elderly now. That&#8217;s especially true given that the DOJ is going after Donald Trump for allegedly storing classified documents, even though Donald Trump (as president) had the authority to declassify whatever he wanted. Not to mention, if being elderly is a defense, Trump is elderly too.
But at this point, no one is surprised by the fact that the DOJ is prosecuting Trump for a crime, while giving Biden a pass for committing the exact same crime. That was always a given. What is surprising, again, is why Joe Biden&#8217;s handlers let him take questions last night in these circumstances. It&#8217;s almost like they were setting him up for this disaster.
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That&#8217;s especially true given the contrast between Biden&#8217;s remarks and the interview last night between Tucker Carlson and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin spoke with Tucker Carlson for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-presses-vladimir-putin-to-release-u-s-journalist-from-custody" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two hours</a>, uninterrupted. In response to a question about why Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin recounted the history of his country in exacting detail, going back centuries. It was dry but it was also informative. He was clearly lucid and clear-thinking. He was more than capable of sitting for a lengthy, adversarial interview with a journalist from a foreign country. That&#8217;s remarkable given that, for the past year, the media has told us that Putin was sick, frail, senile, and in hiding. That&#8217;s obviously not the case.
It is the case with our president, though. We&#8217;re told that Biden isn&#8217;t competent enough to be prosecuted, but is competent enough to have the most important job in the world for another five years. He&#8217;s immune from committing crimes due to his lack of mental capacity, but he can have the nuclear codes, apparently. It&#8217;s laughable, and everyone knows it. They know that Biden has lost his mind. Now even the DOJ has confirmed it — it is a full-blown constitutional crisis if he stays in office.
Of course, the double-edged sword is that it&#8217;s much better politically for Trump if he runs against Biden. Swapping Biden out for someone younger, who can speak in coherent sentences, would make things much more challenging for Trump. But politics are really a secondary concern at this point.
The truth is that we simply cannot have a president who is not only senile, but is known to the world, and to our adversaries, to be senile. He needs to resign. And if he won&#8217;t resign, he needs to be removed from office.
He can be a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory who lives out the remainder of his days off in obscurity somewhere, far away from the levers of power. The rest of us — people who intend to live in this country long after Biden is gone — simply cannot tolerate having him in the White House any longer.

President Biden Delivers Remarks On Special Counsel Report

Biden’s DOJ Declares Him Mentally Incompetent And Unfit For Office

Biden's DOJ Declares Him Mentally Incompetent And Unfit For Office

2024 Election

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Presidency

Vladimir Putin

White House

I have talked a lot about the collapse of the criminal justice system. The very concept of criminal justice — of enacting justice, and punishing crime — has been destroyed. But very few people ever take the time to trace the roots of our current state of lawless anarchy back to its origins. And the thing is, you don’t need to trace the roots very far.
There is a reason why we now live in a country governed by people who don’t believe in simply enforcing the law and punishing lawbreakers. These are people who are operating according to certain particularly crazy set of beliefs. And one of those beliefs is that deterrence doesn’t exist. Effectively, you cannot deter crime by punishing it. That’s the insane idea that began in our institutions of higher learning — the sort of insane idea that can only begin in our institutions of higher learning — and filtered its way down from there. As these ideas always do.
It began with the claim, first made years ago, that the death penalty doesn’t deter crime. This was always false, for reasons we’ll touch on later. But whatever you think of the death penalty, the implication underlying this &#8220;deterrence&#8221; argument was never going to stop with the death penalty. It was always going to progress far beyond that. And indeed, we&#8217;ve seen that progression in recent years. It&#8217;s no longer, &#8220;The death penalty is pointless because people don&#8217;t consider those consequences when they commit crime.&#8221; Instead, the argument we&#8217;re hearing today is, &#8220;All harsh punishment is pointless because people don&#8217;t consider any consequences when they commit crime.&#8221;
This is the intellectual origin of the &#8220;soft-on-crime&#8221; approach to law enforcement that we&#8217;re seeing in every major city in the country right now. And several years ago, this approach was adopted by the Obama DOJ without any fanfare whatsoever. In May of 2016, the National Institute of Justice, which is the research arm of the DOJ, published a <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> entitled, &#8220;Five Things About Deterrence.&#8221; You’ve probably never heard of this document but it is essentially the modern manifesto of the anti-incarceration movement in the United States. It applies the reasoning of anti-death penalty advocates to all forms of crime. It’s truly a remarkable document.
So here are the &#8220;five things about deterrence&#8221; that the memo highlights and then expands upon.
Number one: &#8220;The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment.&#8221; In other words, according to the DOJ, criminals are primarily worried about whether the cops are going to arrest them — not about how long they&#8217;re going to have to stay in prison. The question that apparently never occurred to this DOJ is: If the punishments aren’t severe, then why would the certainty of being caught deter anyone? Why would criminals care if they’re caught, if they know ahead of time that they won’t be punished? The whole reason that being caught is scary is that you will be punished. But if you aren’t punished, then being caught isn’t scary anymore. 
We are seeing this play out in cities across the country. Sure, the criminals are caught (sometimes), but it doesn’t matter because they aren’t punished and they’re back on the street a day later, committing more crimes. The argument from the DOJ is like saying that home invaders are deterred by guns, but it doesn’t matter if it’s a Glock or a super soaker. It makes no sense.
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The DOJ&#8217;s manifesto doesn&#8217;t bother to expound on this point in any way. It just says, &#8220;Research shows clearly that the chance of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent than even draconian punishment.&#8221; So there you have it. &#8220;Research&#8221; shows that punishment doesn&#8217;t work. What kind of research? They don&#8217;t say, at least not in that paragraph. Buried in the fine print on the page, however, is a citation to an <a href="https://prohic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-06-02-DeterrenceMetaNagin.2013.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by a public policy professor named Daniel Nagin at Carnegie Mellon University. This is the primary paper the DOJ relies on, along with a couple of others. Apparently, Nagin has done the research, and he&#8217;s realized that criminals don&#8217;t really care that much about punishment. They only care about the prospect of being caught.
I looked around to see if Nagin actually thinks this, and if so, what his logic is. I came across this clip from many years ago, which I&#8217;m going to play primarily because it&#8217;s kind of hilarious. Watch as a local news team breaks the news that, according to Daniel Nagin&#8217;s first groundbreaking finding, when you have more police officers, criminals tend to commit less crime. And then the news station interviews a couple of random people who think that checks out. This is one of the best examples of &#8220;research&#8221; telling us something that&#8217;s incredibly obvious, to a comical degree. But buried in this report, if you listen really carefully, is Nagin&#8217;s second theory, which the DOJ finds so compelling. Watch:
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So the reporter holds up the stack of papers. &#8220;Here&#8217;s the research,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It shows that more police means less crime!&#8221; Cut to the two local residents and the sheriff who say, &#8220;uh, yeah. You think?&#8221; Apparently, being a professor at Carnegie Mellon isn&#8217;t what it used to be. Random people off the street think your research is incredibly obvious, because it is.
But the key part of that segment for our purposes is what Daniel Nagin says in that clip. He reports that, &#8220;There&#8217;s little evidence that making punishments even more severe than they already are has an incremental effect.&#8221; Right away, that&#8217;s a different argument from the one the DOJ is making. The DOJ said flat-out that, &#8220;draconian punishments&#8221; don&#8217;t deter crime. But the argument this Carnegie Mellon professor is advancing in that clip is that, if you make our existing punishments more severe, then they won&#8217;t deter crime that much. Those are two completely different arguments.
This little inconsistency confused me enough to look up Nagin&#8217;s actual paper — the one the DOJ cites in its manifesto on deterrence. And in that article, you&#8217;ll find two main claims.
The first one is the idea he outlines in that video clip, &#8220;There is little evidence that increases in the length of already long prison sentences yield general deterrence effects that are sufficiently large to justify their social and economic costs.&#8221; In other words, he&#8217;s saying that existing prison sentences are a sufficient deterrent, and we don&#8217;t need to make them longer.
But afterwards in the paper, Nagin goes on to say pretty much what the DOJ claims. He says, &#8220;I have concluded that there is little evidence of a specific deterrent effect arising from the experience of imprisonment compared with the experience of noncustodial sanctions such as probation. .. It is clear that lengthy prison sentences cannot be justified on a deterrence-based, crime prevention basis.&#8221;
Those claims don&#8217;t follow at all. His starting point is that we don&#8217;t need to make prison sentences longer. And somehow, without showing his work, he ends up with a declaration that criminals don&#8217;t really care about their punishments, only whether they&#8217;re apprehended — as though apprehension without punishment matters to anyone. We might as well just sentence everyone to probation, is what he&#8217;s saying.
The technical term for this kind of argument is that it&#8217;s garbage. It&#8217;s a clearly absurd result, but it&#8217;s the basis for the DOJ&#8217;s entire argument against deterrence. This is the document that the DOJ cites to justify its policy of releasing as many criminals as possible — or at least, criminals who share the DOJ&#8217;s politics. It&#8217;s hard to overemphasize how truly bizarre and incredible this is.
But it gets weirder. Citing Nagin&#8217;s research, the DOJ goes on to claim that, &#8220;Sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison isn’t a very effective way to deter crime.&#8221;
Again, that&#8217;s a direct quote from a document produced by the DOJ in 2016. &#8220;Sending an individual convicted of a crime to prison isn&#8217;t a very effective way to deter crime.&#8221; They&#8217;re saying that because some random Carnegie Mellon professor just wrote it down a few years earlier. Again, they don&#8217;t really clarify this point. Here&#8217;s the extent of the DOJ&#8217;s explanation: “Prisons are good for punishing criminals and keeping them off the street, but prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are unlikely to deter future crime. Prisons actually may have the opposite effect: Inmates learn more effective crime strategies from each other, and time spent in prison may desensitize many to the threat of future imprisonment.&#8221;
If this is true, it’s an argument for giving out even longer punishments, not shorter ones. In fact, this is a solid reason to be much more generous in handing out life sentences. If you give a life sentence — and actually make it a life sentence, meaning that the person isn&#8217;t released after 25 years or whatever — then the deterrence issue, at least for that individual, is a moot point. He’s gone. He’s off the street for good. But the DOJ doesn&#8217;t mention this possibility in the memo. Instead they conclude that we should let people out of jail sooner, after just telling us that jail only makes criminals more dangerous.
The rest of the DOJ document continues along these lines.
The third bullet point in the DOJ&#8217;s document says, &#8220;Police deter crime by increasing the perception that criminals will be caught and punished.&#8221; (This was the earth-shattering revelation that shocked those news reporters). 
Number four: &#8220;Increasing the severity of punishment does little to deter crime.&#8221;
And number five: &#8220;There is no proof that the death penalty deters criminals.&#8221;
Those latter two bullet points contradict everything we know about the human condition. Obviously longer, harsh prison sentences deter crime. This is a basic fact of human psychology. People are less likely to do something if the consequences are very bad. That doesn’t mean nobody will do it. It doesn&#8217;t mean that everyone will respond to incentives like a rational person. It just means fewer people will do it. It&#8217;s impossible for a reasonable person to deny this point because it is again a basic fact of human behavior, well established over the course of thousands of years of human civilization.
That’s why they have no way of disproving it. All they have are random studies done by quack sociologists which are supposed to outweigh the collective experience of all mankind for the past 10 thousand years. And by the way, these random studies contradict the random studies I cited earlier — the ones CBS News reported on back in 2007.
That&#8217;s a cue that it&#8217;s a good idea to ignore all of these studies, and use common sense. The DOJ is stacking a handful of research papers against the totality of human experience, and expect us to believe the research papers. Which is also how they come up with the ridiculous proposition that the death penalty doesn’t deter crime. Obviously people are less likely to do something if you kill them for doing it. If the death penalty in its current form is less effective as a deterrence than it has been in the past, that&#8217;s only because we put so much time in between conviction and punishment that the punishment loses much of its societal impact.
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And again, the DOJ&#8217;s arguments are all assuming that &#8220;deterrence&#8221; is somehow the only relevant goal. But long prison sentences have another important goal, known as &#8220;incapacitation.&#8221; They remove violent criminals from the public, so they can&#8217;t hurt anyone again. 
Later on in the document, the DOJ does briefly touch on the goal of incapacitation. Here&#8217;s what they say: &#8220;Individuals grow out of criminal activity as they age. &#8230; A more severe (i.e., lengthy) prison sentence for convicted individuals who are naturally aging out of crime does achieve the goal of punishment and incapacitation. But that incapacitation is a costly way to deter future crimes by aging individuals who already are less likely to commit those crimes by virtue of age.&#8221;
This is how the DOJ views criminal justice. They actually say that sending criminals to prison for a long time might be pointless because they&#8217;ll grow out of being criminals anyway. This is the type of thinking that is directing the justice system from the very top, and the mental rot goes all the way down from there.
But the DOJ does make one point that makes sense, which is that it&#8217;s impossible to say which criminals are likely to reoffend, and which criminals are likely to &#8220;age out&#8221; of a life of crime. That&#8217;s true. Really, it&#8217;s impossible to conduct a fully accurate study of deterrence. There&#8217;s no way to quantify the number of people who would have committed a crime had the punishments been softer, or the number who did commit one because the punishments were too soft. This would require not only self-reported data (which is notoriously unreliable) but also a person&#8217;s speculations about their theoretical mental states in some other possible universe. There&#8217;s just no way to compile that into a statistic and call it science.
We ultimately have to fall back on the history of human societies and our own basic common sense intuitions about how human beings operate and what sorts of things incentivize and disincentivize them.
And all of that points back to a simple and straightforward conclusion: if you want less crime, you have one choice. It&#8217;s the choice that academics and public health experts and politicians have avoided making for decades now. You have to punish criminals, and you have to punish them severely.

Chalk Outline at Police Crime Scene

Why The Criminal Justice System Gave Up On Punishing Criminals

Criminal Justice

Death Penalty

Jail

Prison

Woke Culture

Dozens of public housing employees in New York City were charged with bribery and extortion on Tuesday in a record for the largest number of bribery charges filed in a single day by the Justice Department.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged 70 current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) with accepting cash bribes from contractors in exchange for Housing Authority contracts, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/nyregion/nyc-public-housing-corruption.html">reported</a>.
The suspects are accused of accepting more than $2 million in bribes from contractors who wanted to work on nearly 100 of the Housing Authority&#8217;s buildings in all five boroughs. More than $13 million in work was awarded, with the suspects typically getting 10% or 20% kickbacks, sometimes more, prosecutors said.
The suspects were arrested in handcuffs in a major raid Tuesday morning.
“This culture of corruption at NYCHA ends today,” said Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York at a press conference Tuesday morning, calling it a “classic pay to play” scheme.
Much of the Housing Authority corruption involved smaller contracts that initially flew under the radar, like window or plumbing repairs. If city contracts are less than $10,000, local development managers can award them without going through the public bidding process.
Lisa Bova-Hiatt, NYCHA’s chief executive, said the suspects “put their greed first and violated the trust of our residents, their fellow NYCHA colleagues and all New Yorkers.”
“We will not allow bad actors to disrupt or undermine our achievements,” she said.
The smaller contracts have been flagged for potential corruption in the past by both investors and news outlets. Some contractors have even been charged before — in 2021, nine contractors were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/nyregion/nyc-public-housing-corruption.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with bribery.
Meanwhile, a host of other problems plague the city&#8217;s Housing Authority, which <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/about-nycha.page" target="_blank" rel="noopener">houses</a> more than half a million New Yorkers across more than 2,400 buildings.
The agency has been criticized for operating old buildings with rodents, leaky pipes, and broken elevators, as well as for its backlog of hundreds of thousands of people on the housing waiting list. The properties currently need about $78 billion worth of repairs.
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At the same time, people are paying less rent to the agency than ever. In 2022, the Housing Authority collected a record low 65% of the rent it charged.
The city&#8217;s Housing Authority is the largest in the country and receives more than $1.5 billion in federal funding.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/nyregion/nyc-housing-plan-adams.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> affordable housing, announcing back in the fall an ambitious goal of 100,000 new homes to combat the city&#8217;s severe housing shortage.

Overhead view of some New York City Housing Authority  (NYCHA) projects (1977)

Dozens Of NYC Govt Employees Arrested By Feds, Most Single-Day Bribery Arrests In DOJ History

Eric Adams

Housing

New York

New York City

In the first week of October 2022, 100 days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Joe Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/joe-biden-kamala-harris-reproductive-health-task-force/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held</a> a highly publicized meeting with his so-called &#8220;reproductive rights task force&#8221; in the state dining room of the White House. At the meeting, Biden announced a plan to subvert the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling, to the extent that he could. He instructed Congress to pass legislation that would prevent any state from banning abortion. He also announced millions of dollars in federal funds to promote abortion, and threatened legal consequences for any university that tried to punish a student for killing her child. 
What Joe Biden didn&#8217;t announce is that, as he spoke, his enforcers in the DOJ were planning a &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; style raid designed to intimidate and punish pro-life activists. Just hours after the meeting of Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;task force,&#8221; at 7:00 a.m. on October 5, a team of heavily armed FBI agents <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2022/10/07/after-fbi-raid-pro-life-advocate-was-held-for-6-hours-charged-and-released-with-no-wallet-or-phone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrived</a> at the Centerville, Tennessee, home of Paul Vaughn. One of the agents apparently delighted in telling one of Vaughn&#8217;s children, who was waiting for him to drive them to school, that their father was going to jail. And indeed, agents arrested Paul Vaughn in front of his children and hauled him away as they refused to answer any of his wife&#8217;s questions. Here&#8217;s some of the footage she recorded from that morning:
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Video of the FBI&#39;s arrest of Paul Vaughn of Centerville, Tennessee. DOJ charged him with “conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act, and committing FACE Act violations&quot; for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic. Paul tells me the footage was taken by his wife. <a href="https://t.co/KSDvLRSrlF">pic.twitter.com/KSDvLRSrlF</a>
&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1578464777147326464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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What was Paul Vaughn&#8217;s crime? As I mentioned on the show yesterday, a full year and a half before that FBI raid — in March of 2021 — Paul Vaughn participated in a protest at an abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, along with several other pro-life activists. These activists sang and prayed in a hallway outside of the facility. Local police arrived, told these activists to leave, and they refused. So a handful of them were arrested for misdemeanor trespassing.
To add some dark irony to the situation, one of the protesters was booked for &#8220;contributing to the delinquency of a minor,&#8221; because the protester brought a child to the demonstration. So, taking your kid to pray and sing at an abortion facility is &#8220;contributing to their delinquency.&#8221; But killing your kid at the abortion facility is great, apparently. And this is in Tennessee, a state that&#8217;s controlled for the most part by the Republican Party.
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Interestingly enough, Paul Vaughn himself wasn&#8217;t arrested by local police that day, because he was outside, functioning mainly as a liaison between the police and the demonstrators. They didn&#8217;t see any reason to arrest him because he wasn&#8217;t even trespassing in the hallway. And really, the whole situation was obviously overblown anyway. At a press conference following the arrests, a reporter asked the police spokesman why they were bothering to clog the court system with trivial trespassing cases like this. It wasn&#8217;t exactly the crime of the century, and everyone knew it. In case you need a reminder, here&#8217;s what it looked like:
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BREAKING: Six pro-life activists were just found guilty in federal court after being prosecuted by Biden&#39;s DOJ under the FACE Act for protesting outside a Nashville abortion clinic.
Here&#39;s a snippet of the protest, which occurred on March 5, 2021.
For the crime of praying and… <a href="https://t.co/UPzZvtZebM">pic.twitter.com/UPzZvtZebM</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1752428280756482441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Watching these people praying and singing, the Biden administration saw an opportunity. They decided to make an example out of Paul Vaughn and everyone else who protested at that abortion facility. In all, the DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/eleven-charged-face-act-violations-stemming-2021-blockade-mount-juliet-reproductive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 11 people for participating in the demonstration, including an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor named Eva Edl. They charged these protesters with violations of the federal &#8220;Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,&#8221; (or FACE Act), which carries penalties of up to a decade in prison.
There was never any way to justify this charging decision, even using the standards of Joe Biden&#8217;s attorney general, Merrick Garland. Prior to the arrests, Garland <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/15/abortion-rights-clinics-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> under oath in the Senate, “We prosecute without respect to ideology, but we do focus on the most violent acts, the most dangerous actors and the cases most likely to lead to danger to most Americans.”
No part of that statement was true, as it turns out. Not only does the DOJ prosecute explicitly on the basis of ideology, but they&#8217;re also focusing on the least violent and dangerous acts imaginable — namely sitting and praying in front of abortion facilities. And their strategy appears to be working. 
Yesterday, a federal jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-church-meeting-is-now-a-conspiracy-pro-lifers-pray-outside-court-after-conviction-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> six pro-life activists, including Paul Vaughn, of FACE Act violations, as well as engaging in a &#8220;conspiracy against rights&#8221;. The jury apparently agreed with the DOJ that Paul Vaughn and another demonstrator, simply by negotiating with police, were really engaging in a &#8220;delaying tactic.&#8221; And therefore, they&#8217;re just as guilty as the demonstrators in the hallway. And now all of these defendants are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and up to a decade in prison.
Unfortunately, in the federal system, cameras aren&#8217;t allowed in the courtroom. So we can&#8217;t show you video footage of what the prosecutors said. But thanks to reporter Leif Le Mahieu from The Daily Wire, we do know that in closing arguments the prosecutor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-deliberates-fate-of-six-pro-lifers-facing-11-years-in-prison-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> these demonstrators were not in fact peaceful protesters simply by virtue of the fact that they committed a crime. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-deliberates-fate-of-six-pro-lifers-facing-11-years-in-prison-over-peaceful-protest">observed</a>: &#8220;During her final statements to the jury, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Klopf likened the actions of the six pro-lifers to that of a group of people attempting to convince someone not to vote, and blocking the entrance of a polling location. She said that, &#8216;something is not peaceful if laws are broken.'&#8221;
That&#8217;s actually what Joe Biden&#8217;s assistant U.S. attorney said. Her argument is that all crimes are inherently violent simply by virtue of the fact that they involve breaking the law.
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Whatever we think of that reasoning, it&#8217;s obviously insanely inconsistent with Joe Biden’s own stated goal to release “nonviolent offenders” from jail. That&#8217;s why he <a href="https://www.justice.gov/pardon/presidential-proclamation-marijuana-possession#:~:text=On%20October%206%2C%202022%20%2C%20President%20Biden%20announced%20a%20full%2C,people%20with%20those%20prior%20offenses.">pardoned</a> all of those marijuana offenders, supposedly. It&#8217;s also why the DOJ <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-settles-cases-related-police-response-dc-anti-racism-protests-2022-04-13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid out</a> a massive settlement to those BLM rioters who occupied Lafayette Square near the White House, even though some of them <a href="https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1513657796495085574?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw</a> frozen water bottles and rocks at police officers. And it&#8217;s why the DOJ dropped more than a third of the criminal cases against BLM rioters who <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/portland-protest-cases-dismissed-feds/283-002f01d2-3217-4b12-8725-3fda2cad119f">sieged</a> a courthouse in Portland. We&#8217;re told all of these offenses were nonviolent and therefore no charges should be brought. Apparently it&#8217;s only when you pray silently outside an abortion facility that you go to prison. That&#8217;s the only nonviolent offense that cannot stand.
So there&#8217;s no denying this argument from Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ is hypocritical. But that&#8217;s not the point, really. Everyone knows that. The point is that under the U.S. Constitution, the government isn&#8217;t allowed to be hypocritical when it comes to enforcing the law. We have something called the Equal Protection Clause. We have Due Process. And if that means anything, it&#8217;s that the government can&#8217;t selectively enforce laws, depending on which ideology it wants to punish. That&#8217;s the problem here. 
Yes, the people who gathered inside that hallway did violate the letter of the FACE Act. They apparently convinced someone not to kill their baby that day, and go home instead, and as the law is written, that&#8217;s a crime. These peaceful activists did violate federal law.
That law, however, happens to be atrocious and unconstitutional for many reasons, one of which is that the law is being unevenly enforced to an extreme degree. The White House isn&#8217;t even attempting to hide this. Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/06/statement-from-president-biden-on-marijuana-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his pardon of nonviolent marijuana users literally a day after the FBI raised Paul Vaughn&#8217;s home, just to underscore the message he&#8217;s sending. They are absolving one class of nonviolent criminals while hunting down another class of nonviolent criminals like they&#8217;re an Al Qaeda cell.
But they&#8217;re not terrorists, or even close to it. These pro-lifers — a collection of elderly retirees and parents with young children — were engaged in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. Sending these demonstrators to prison for 11 years for that civil disobedience — which harmed no one and caused no damage to property — is both cruel and clearly unjust.
Maybe it could be explained on some theoretical level if the administration had established a precedent of bringing the hammer down on everyone who violates the law for the sake of making a political point, but that is obviously not the case here. BLM rioters who torched police stations have gotten a fraction of the time. People who harassed Supreme Court justices at their homes haven’t even been arrested, to my knowledge. The administration is punishing political disobedience depending on the politics of the people involved.
It&#8217;s hard to imagine a more Soviet system of &#8220;justice.&#8221; But it&#8217;s the approach that the Biden administration is now committed to. They aren&#8217;t just going after these pro-life demonstrations in Tennessee. They tried to do the same thing to Mark Houck, who was <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253523/acquitted-pro-life-activist-mark-houck-reveals-details-of-fbi-raid-will-press-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> in September of 2022 for an incident that occurred a year earlier, in October of 2021. Houck&#8217;s alleged crime, as I&#8217;ve discussed previously, was shoving a volunteer at an abortion facility, after the guy started harassing Houck&#8217;s 12-year-old son. This was such an absurd non-crime that local police didn&#8217;t pursue any charges, similar to the case of Paul Vaughn. But the DOJ decided to revive the case, around the same time that Joe Biden needed to convince his base that he&#8217;s going to wage a domestic war against pro-lifers.
Notice the pattern here. An incident happens involving pro-lifers. Nobody thinks its a big deal. Local law enforcement isn’t that worried about it. Nobody is harmed. Everyone moves on. Then the federal government comes back around months or years later and decides to literally make a federal case out of it.
This is the very essence of a political witch hunt.
There are many more cases like these. For example, there&#8217;s the case of five pro-life activists who were <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/30/exclusive-cruz-accuses-doj-of-aggressively-targeting-pro-life-activists-who-blew-the-whistle-on-dc-abortionist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> by a Washington, D.C., jury last year for FACE Act violations. One of the activists is a woman named Lauren Handy. Handy began to attract the DOJ&#8217;s attention when she found the bodies of five preemie-sized aborted babies in a box outside an abortion facility in the D.C. neighborhood of Foggy Bottom. According to The Daily Signal, the box &#8220;also contained over a hundred pulverized remains of first-trimester babies.&#8221;
One of the doctors at that clinic, Live Action had previously reported, admitted on a hidden camera that he would allow babies to die if they were accidentally delivered during abortions:
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This is the abortionist currently under fire for the mangled baby bodies recovered right here in DC. Live Action recorded him saying years ago that he would let babies die if they were accidentally delivered during abortions. <a href="https://t.co/Lqb9cOYdwE">pic.twitter.com/Lqb9cOYdwE</a>
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So Lauren Handy and several others decided to protest this butchery. They looked into this abortion facility. And of course, D.C. police and the DOJ took the side of the people who are murdering babies for profit. Again, they pursued a 10-year sentence for activists engaging in peaceful protest.
To give you an idea of how incomprehensible all of this is, they don&#8217;t even treat pro-life activists this badly in one of the most godless places on the planet, the United Kingdom. Around a year ago, police in Birmingham <a href="https://catholicreview.org/english-police-apologize-to-woman-arrested-for-silently-praying-outside-abortion-facility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> a woman for praying silently outside of an abortion clinic. But the case was so absurd and so wildly unpopular that within a few months, they apologized to her and dropped the charges. Even in Britain, this was too far.
But in this country, conservatives are allowing this purge of pro-lifers to take place, with barely any pushback. You&#8217;ll hear more from conservatives about Taylor Swift than you will about this ideologically driven, unconstitutional attack on civil liberties in this country. What this means is that if these tyrants get another four years in office, there is no doubt that they will ramp up their political persecution. There will be absolutely no one to stop them. Should that come to pass — especially if you care about things like human life and stopping child sacrifices — then before long, there&#8217;s a very good chance they&#8217;ll be knocking on your front door as well.

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Anger erupted online on Tuesday following the Biden Department of Justice&#8217;s successful <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-demonstrators-found-guilty-face-up-to-11-years-in-federal-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prosecution of another six pro-life protesters</a>, who now face more than a decade behind bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
Following a protest back in 2021, the activists, who were not accused of any violence, were found guilty in a Tennessee courtroom of conspiracy against rights secured by the FACE Act and committing FACE Act violations. The FACE Act is a Clinton-era law that <a href="https://thegoodnewsroom.org/last-of-10-defendants-found-guilty-under-face-act-for-dc-abortion-clinic-blockade/">criminalizes</a> the use of force, or threats of force that prevent someone from accessing an abortion clinic. 
&#8220;A grand total of zero people have ever been arrested for protesting outside the houses of Supreme Court justices after Roe was overturned, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/11/protest-justice-home-illegal/">which is a federal crime</a>. But peaceful pro-lifers now face 11 years in jail for praying outside an abortion clinic,&#8221; conservative strategist Greg Price posted Tuesday, emphasizing the apparently politically biased application of federal laws.
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A grand total of zero people have ever been arrested for protesting outside the houses of Supreme Court justices after Roe was overturned, which is a federal crime.
But peaceful pro-lifers now face 11 years in jail for praying outside an abortion clinic. <a href="https://t.co/Ev2LNPC4mF">https://t.co/Ev2LNPC4mF</a>
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Daily Wire podcast host and author Matt Walsh blasted the DOJ for its &#8220;full on Soviet style corruption and persecution.&#8221;
&#8220;This is incredible,&#8221; he wrote on X. &#8220;The US attorney prosecuting the pro life activists who were just convicted and face 11 years in prison for peacefully protesting outside of a clinic actually argued in court that there is no such thing as a non-violent crime.&#8221;
&#8220;Meanwhile the Biden Administration is currently in the process of releasing hundreds of criminals from prison on the basis that their crimes were non-violent,&#8221; Walsh added. &#8220;They are making legal arguments totally arbitrarily depending on the politics of the situation. Full on Soviet style corruption and persecution.&#8221;
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This is incredible. The US attorney prosecuting the pro life activists who were just convicted and face 11 years in prison for peacefully protesting outside of a clinic actually argued in court that there is no such thing as a non-violent crime. Meanwhile the Biden Administration… <a href="https://t.co/fY4jtmalhJ">pic.twitter.com/fY4jtmalhJ</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1752444264556924970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Biden regime is evil and corrupt to the core,&#8221; popular X account Libs of TikTok reacted. &#8220;They’re jailing pro-lifers for praying and singing.&#8221;
&#8220;Meanwhile most BLM &amp; Antifa protesters had their charges dropped, Democrats staged multiple insurrections &#8211; taking over state Capitols, and Democrat run cities are riddled with crime as their soft-on-crime DA’s let violent criminals go free,&#8221; the post continued. &#8220;The Democrats accuse us of fascism. This is real fascism. They always accuse us of what they themselves are doing.&#8221;
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The Biden regime is evil and corrupt to the core. They’re jailing pro-lifers for praying and singing.
Meanwhile most BLM &amp; Antifa protesters had their charges dropped, Democrats staged multiple insurrections &#8211; taking over state Capitols, and Democrat run cities are riddled with… <a href="https://t.co/lewd1fz70w">https://t.co/lewd1fz70w</a>
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) suggested the FACE Act &#8220;is being used by the DOJ to punish pro-life protesters but not their pro-abortion counterparts.&#8221;
&#8220;Is the FACE Act sufficiently well written, fairly administered, and clearly appropriate as an exercise of federal lawmaking authority? I believe the answer to that question is &#8216;no&#8217;—on all three points,&#8221; Lee wrote on X, adding, &#8220;Bottom line: the Biden administration incarcerates people for praying at abortion clinics while ignoring violent acts at churches and pregnancy centers. So many camels. So much obsessive attention paid to harmless things mistaken for gnats.&#8221;
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10. Bottom line: the Biden administration incarcerates people for praying at abortion clinics while ignoring violent acts at churches and pregnancy centers. So many camels. So much obsessive attention paid to harmless things mistaken for gnats.
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The Biden DOJ has ramped up its prosecution of pro-life protesters since the start of the president&#8217;s term. One of the first cases that drew attention to the matter was the targeting of Catholic pro-life father of seven Mark Houck, who was arrested and had his home raided by an estimated 20 FBI agents in front of his children. Houck was ultimately acquitted by a jury after about an hour of deliberation, and the family is now suing the DOJ for millions of dollars. 
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In another instance, anger erupted over the summer when the DOJ successfully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anger-erupts-after-biden-doj-gets-5-pro-life-activists-convicted-thrown-in-jail">convicted</a> five pro-life activists on FACE Act-related charges. The activists were thrown in jail to await their sentencing and are facing 11 years behind bars and $350,000 fines. 
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a few months ago, pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland about how the FACE Act is being applied and to whom. Notably, the law is supposed to extend to the protection of pro-life pregnancy centers.
“Are you concerned at all that enforcement of the FACE Act has been biased towards pro-lifers over anti-life protestors 126 to 4 by our count,&#8221; Roy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J26woSIPco">pressed</a> Garland, &#8220;126 times against pro-lifers, versus four times?”  
President Joe Biden, however, seems to be leaning into pro-abortion messaging. Since just last week, Biden has <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1749576449571324189">tweeted</a> from his personal account about abortion and the overturning of Roe v. Wade eight different times. Additionally, Vice President Kamala Harris is currently on an <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a46575629/vice-president-kamala-harris-abortion-rights-tour/">abortion tour</a> called the “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-church-meeting-is-now-a-conspiracy-pro-lifers-pray-outside-court-after-conviction-over-peaceful-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘A Church Meeting Is Now A Conspiracy’: Pro-Lifers Pray Outside Court After Conviction Over Peaceful Protest</a>

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‘This Is Real Fascism’: Anger Erupts After Biden DOJ Targets More Pro-Life Protesters, Who Now Face Decade Behind Bars 

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New <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67511701/united-states-v-biden/?order_by=desc">filings</a> in the ongoing case against President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son confirm that the laptop tied to Hunter Biden was, in fact, his — and that the Justice Department knew it.
New York Post reporter Miranda Devine — who has been working on the Hunter Biden story since the very beginning — laid out some of the new details in a thread posted to X. She noted that in addition to the Bidens and the Justice Department being fully aware that the laptop was Hunter&#8217;s, they had even been able to match the contents discovered on the laptop to content stored on the cloud under his account.
&#8220;In a new court filing today, the DOJ confirms Hunter Biden’s laptop is real, that he left it at a computer store, and that the contents matched what they obtained from a search warrant of his iCloud. Don’t hold your breath for a retraction from Joe Biden (&#8216;It’s a Russian plant&#8217;), the #Dirty51 or myriad dishonest media operatives. They blamed Russia when the Bidens knew it was Hunter &#8211; and so did the FBI. Hunter also blamed Russia when he was caught using adultery site Ashley Madison,&#8221; Devine posted to start off her thread.
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Special counsel David Weiss’ prosecutor Leo Wise has been busy today. Multiple filings including new evidence about his allegedly illegal gun purchase while addicted to crack cocaine for which he is being prosecuted in Delaware after his sweetheart plea deal fell apart: <a href="https://t.co/cUycBuZm8B">pic.twitter.com/cUycBuZm8B</a>
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Other details in the most recent filings included additional information about Hunter Biden&#8217;s allegedly illegal firearm — and the federal form he had allegedly filled out dishonestly in order to obtain it.
Among the evidence was a text message — allegedly sent by Hunter Biden within 48 hours of purchasing the firearm — in which he stated that he was &#8220;meeting a drug dealer,&#8221; &#8220;smoking crack,&#8221; and sleeping in a car.
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The DOJ presents its best evidence that Hunter Biden was a cocaine user when he bought the gun: “To be clear, investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun.” <a href="https://t.co/o99L2foFUt">pic.twitter.com/o99L2foFUt</a>
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The filing also stated that cocaine had been found &#8220;on the pouch&#8221; in which the younger Biden had stored the gun in question, suggesting that he had the gun and the drugs in close proximity and at the same time.
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Devine concluded by acknowledging the two IRS whistleblowers — Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler — who had brought the story into public view.
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Oh, and none of this would have come to light or been prosecuted if it were not for the integrity of two IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler &#8211; who remain employed by the IRS where they currently are being retaliated against. At least, unlike what the FBI does to…
&mdash; Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1747427259856597300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-hampshire">New Hampshire</a> man has been arrested for threatening to “blow” the “brains out” of a presidential candidate, according to the Justice Department. 
The DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nh/pr/dover-man-arrested-and-charged-threatening-kill-presidential-candidate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Monday morning that a 30-year-old man had been charged over a text message that threatened a candidate and attendees of a campaign event. The DOJ did not identify which candidate had been threatened, but the campaign of Republican tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly confirmed that he was the target of the threat. 
On December 8, in response to a text message about an event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the suspect allegedly replied, “Great, another opportunity for me to blow his brains out!” and “I’m going to kill everyone who attends and then f*** their corpses.”
According to the DOJ, the text message was sent in response to an invitation for a campaign event on December 11. Ramaswamy was the only candidate with a public event <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/nh-man-charged-with-threatening-to-kill-presidential-candidate/3216001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> in Portsmouth that day and his campaign told the New Hampshire Journal that they were the targets of the threat. 
“We are grateful to law enforcement for their swiftness and professionalism in handling this matter and pray for the safety of all Americans,” campaign spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin <a href="https://nhjournal.com/dover-man-arrested-after-threat-to-blow-ramasamys-brains-out-at-portsmouth-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet. 
Ramaswamy’s campaign had scheduled a “Breakfast with Vivek” event at the Roundabout Dinner in Portsmouth, the NHJournal reported. 
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The suspect will appear in federal court in Concord on Monday for an initial hearing. According to the DOJ, he could face up to five years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000 if convicted.
Court documents also allege that he had sent threatening messages to a different candidate last week, saying he wanted to &#8220;blow that b******&#8217;s head off,&#8221; NBC Boston reported. 
Another message said, &#8220;Thanks, I&#8217;ll see you there. Hope you have the stamina for a mass shooting!&#8221;
On Monday morning, Ramaswamy <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1734212795577585906" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a series of events throughout New Hampshire, including in the cities of Portsmouth, Nashua, and Manchester.

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